[wp-testers] Slashes being stripped from CSS escaped characters

[Brent Logan]

You're exactly right! I disabled *all* my plugins, went to the theme
editor, and the slashes are there. Now to enable them one by one and
find the offending plugin...

I should have tried this on the default theme with no plugins before
making a report. Sorry... :-(

But thanks for your help!

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> Thanks for confirming
>
> I can't duplicate it though.. It could be a plugin conflict though,
> something is causing an extra stripslashes() to be run on the content.
> It could even be Javascript in the browser from a plugin, although there
> isn't many that would cause it.
> I'd be interested if you could duplicate it on a clean installation..
>
> On 22 September 2012 12:52, Brent Logan <gbrentlogan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm using the theme editor that is accessed by clicking or hovering
>> over Appearance and then clicking Edit. I'm not using Jetpacks CSS
>> editor.
>>
>> I used FTP + and editor to replace all the slashes, saved the CSS
>> file, and confirmed proper appearance on my blog. Then I returned to
>> the theme editor to look at the CSS file, and they don't appear. I
>> believe the slashes are being stripped when the file is opened and
>> displayed by editor and then saving the file completes their deletion.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au>
>> wrote:
>> > WordPress's Theme editor seems to work as expected, but the Jetpack
>> Custom
>> > CSS editor seems to show the problem.
>> >
>> > Can you confirm which one you're using? (Hint: WordPress editor is
>> > 'Editor', Jetpack is 'Edit CSS')
>> >
>> > On 22 September 2012 12:14, Brent Logan <gbrentlogan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm not sure when the change took place, but editing a CSS file using
>> >> the theme editor strips the slashes from CSS escaped characters.
>> >>
>> >> For example:
>> >>
>> >> .next-comment-link a:before{content:"\2190"}
>> >>
>> >> loses the \ before 2190.
>> >>
>> >> It does make the blog look a little funny. I guess that's one way to
>> >> stop people from using the theme editor. ;-)
>> >>
>> >> -Brent
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